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Book The American Baptist Almanac for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book The American Baptist Almanac for the Year of Our Lord written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Whig Almanac and United States Register for

Download or read book The Whig Almanac and United States Register for written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Church Almanac for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book The Church Almanac for the Year of Our Lord written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Download or read book The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Almanac  for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book The British Almanac for the Year of Our Lord written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Baptist Almanac

Download or read book The American Baptist Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The United States Catholic Magazine and Monthly Review

Download or read book The United States Catholic Magazine and Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunt s Merchants  Magazine and Commercial Review

Download or read book Hunt s Merchants Magazine and Commercial Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Red  White  and Blue Letter Days

Download or read book Red White and Blue Letter Days written by Matthew Dennis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, and other celebrations matter to Americans and reflect the state of American local and national politics. Commemorations of cataclysmic events and light, apparently trivial observances mirror American political and cultural life. Both reveal much about the material conditions of the United States and its citizens' identities, historical consciousness, and political attitudes. Lying dormant within these festivals is the potential for political consequence, controversy, even transformation. American political fetes remain works in progress, as Americans use historical celebrations as occasions to reinvent themselves and their nation, often with surprising results. In six engaging chapters 'assaying particular political holidays over the course of their histories, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days examines how Americans have shaped and been shaped by their calendar. Matthew Dennis explores this vast political and cultural terrain, charting how Americans defined their identities through celebration. Independence Day invited African Americans to demand the equality promised in the Declaration of Independence, for example, just as Columbus Day—celebrating the Italian, Catholic explorer—helped immigrants proclaim their legitimacy as Americans. Native Americans too could use public holidays, such as Thanksgiving or Veterans Day, to express dissent or demonstrate their claims to citizenship. Merchants and advertisers colonized the American calendar, moving in to sell their products by linking them, often tenuously, with holiday occasions or casting consumption as a patriotic act.

Book Virginia Counties

    Book Details:
  • Author : Morgan Poitiaux Robinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Virginia Counties written by Morgan Poitiaux Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Place index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Place index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beauty and the Brain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel E. Walker
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2022-11-23
  • ISBN : 0226822567
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Beauty and the Brain written by Rachel E. Walker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.

Book The metropolitan catholic almanac and Laity s directory

Download or read book The metropolitan catholic almanac and Laity s directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ladies  Repository

Download or read book The Ladies Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.